William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism

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Few twentieth-century writers are as revered as William Faulkner. This collection brings together the best literary criticism on Faulkner from the last six decades detailing the imaginative and passionate responses to his still-controversial novels. By focusing on the criticism rather than the works Linda Wagner-Martin shows the primary directions in Faulkners influence on critics writers and students of American literature today. This invaluable volume reveals the patterns of change in literary criticism over time while exploring the various critical streamslanguage theory feminism deconstruction and psychoanalysisthat have elevated Faulkners work to the highest rank of the American literary pantheon.